> > > How do emulate a paper tape other than having it binary file, a octal file or a > > text > > > file? > > > > Maybe OCR... > > This is paper tape with holes punched in it - way less sophisticated than OCR.
I know this stuff. Provided enough confetti for carneval each each year when i was small. Simply writing OCR was qay quicker than "recognizing punched holes from a paper strip scan, loaded using image files or whatever".